Calcium imaging of sleep–wake related neuronal activity in the dorsal pons

Julia Cox; Lucas Pinto; Yang Dan

doi:10.1038/ncomms10763

Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Calcium imaging of sleep–wake related neuronal activity in the dorsal pons

Julia Cox,
Lucas Pinto,
Yang Dan

Affiliations

Julia Cox: Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, 230 Li Ka Shing Center, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Lucas Pinto: Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, 230 Li Ka Shing Center, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Yang Dan: Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, 230 Li Ka Shing Center, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10763
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

Read online

Dreaming occurs in REM sleep, yet the neural mechanisms involved in generating it are not understood. Here Cox and colleagues show that glutamatergic neurons in the dorsal pons are activated most during transition to REM sleep while GABAergic neurons are more active during waking state.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

About the journal